Quotes on Life

• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. -Marcus Aurelius

• This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.- George Bernard Shaw

• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?- Vincent van Gogh

• When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” Sydney J. Harris

• A life lived in love will never be dull - Leo Buscaglia

• It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart’s position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after — lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won’t ever come by such a bargain again. Louise Erdrich

• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.- Tom Head

• Live every act fully, as if it were your last.- Buddha

• To be awake is to be alive.- Henry David Thoreau

• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.- Thornton Wilder

• Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.- Michael Vance

• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein

• Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.- Grandma Moses

• Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]- Robert C. Solomon

• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.- Agatha Christie

• Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.- Alan Dean Foster

• You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.- Sam Nunn

• The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.- Mark Twain

• The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.- Heywood Broun

• Each person must live their life as a model for others. – Rosa Parks

• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.- Soren Kierkegaard

• There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. – Ken Venturi

Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!- Thomas F. Healey

• Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.- Anne Wilson Schaef

• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.- George Washington Carver

• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.- Baruch Spinoza

• I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.- Eleanor Roosevelt

• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.Lord Byron

• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.- Oscar Wilde

• What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.- Mark Twain

• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.- Albert Schweitzer

• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.- Madame de Stael

• Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.- Stephen Covey

• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.- Robert Byrne

• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.- George Sand

• The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.- Pearl S. Buck

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.- Victor Frankl

Love — is anterior to Life — Posterior — to Death — Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth — – Emily Dickinson

• I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.- Colette

• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.- Isaac Asimov

• Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.- Carl Sandburg

• Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.- Thich Nhat Hanh

• It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.- Thomas Jefferson

• Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.- Germaine Greer

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller

• There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.- Carl Jung

• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.- Mark Twain

• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.- John Lennon

• And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.- Elbert Hubbard

• Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.- Colette

• Where there is love there is life.- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel

• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.- Henry James

• Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.- Maria Mitchell

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.- Ralph Ellison

• Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.- Theodore Rubin

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwi
• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekho

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha

• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first . – Mark Twain

• Everything has been figured out, except how to live. – Jean-Paul Sartre

• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E. B. White

• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

• I love life because what more is there. – Anthony Hopkins

• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

• It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ,- Sholom Aleichem

• Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega Gasset                                                                                                                              

• Life is half spent before we know what it is. – George Herbert

• Life is never easy for those who dream. – Robert James Waller

• Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep. – Fran Lebowitz

• Life is wasted on the living. – Douglas Adams

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist . – Karen Horney

• Life must be lived as play. – Plato

• Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. – Karen Horney

• Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round . – David Lodge

• Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. – Arthur Miller

• My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. – Cary Grant

• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. – Socrates

• Only a few things are really important. – Marie Dressler

• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H. L. Mencken

• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century . – William Lyon Phelps

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. – Karen Horney

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

• There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin

• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

• We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. – Lauryn Hill

• What we play is life. – Louis Armstrong

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”. – Erma Bombeck

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus

• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. –  Aristotle

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.-  A. W. Pinero

• Those who wish to sing, always find a song .- Swedish Proverb

• Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. -Tyron Edwards

• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for . -Joseph Addison

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. – Alan Lakein

• Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. – Denis Waitley

• To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. – Confucius

• To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly . Henri Bergson

• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker

• The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. Harold Wilkins

• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it’s not for you . John Mortimer

• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.- John Adams

• There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. -William Barclay

• There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein

• People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.- Unknown Author

• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.- Andrew Carnegie:

• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backwards to their ancestors.- Edmund Burke

• Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.- Wayne Oates

• Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Paul J. Meyer

• The mere sense of living is joy enough.- Emily Dickinson

• The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. – Norman Vincent Peale

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.- Oprah Winfrey

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.- Brian Tracy

• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives. -Albert Einstein

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter . E. E. Cummings

• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. – Montaigne

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.- Abraham Lincoln

• Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Tom Blandi

• Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.- Katherine Anne Porter

• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King

• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings .- John F. Kennedy

• Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.- Bernard Shaw

• View life as a continuous learning experience.- Denis Waitley

• Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors. -Confucius

• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.- Anne Frank

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. -Benjamin Disraeli

• We are always getting ready to live but never living.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance . -Benjamin Disraeli

• We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. – Woodrow Wilson

• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience .- Teilhard de Chardin

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